CHUCK BERRY MY DING A LING REACTION | This was on Radio??

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  • Chuck Berry aings about his Ding a Ling and this is my reaction.I can't believe he pulled this off!
    Absolutely hilarious! Git me rolling and it was done very cleverly.The lyrics were superbly entertaining.
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  • @danmellis398
    @danmellis398 3 роки тому +58

    Even crazier…out of all the timeless songs from Chuck Berry, the only #1 song in his entire career was My Ding A Ling.

    • @conniegordon2465
      @conniegordon2465 Рік тому +1

      Hard to believe this was his only #1hit. When I was a teenager in the 50's, I loved his music, and it was very popular. Never knew this one existed back then. I think this one came out later though.

    • @Barbie8051
      @Barbie8051 День тому

      "Timeless songs of Chuck Berry" said by the man in a suit...!

  • @mikefetterman6782
    @mikefetterman6782 3 роки тому +41

    There was an actually toy in the 1930's called a " Ding a Ling" I was similar to a "Yo Yo". He is just enjoying the double entendre, and making the most of it.

    • @mikefetterman6782
      @mikefetterman6782 3 роки тому +4

      My cousin's grandfather had the packaging from one when I was a child in the 70's

    • @TheSchuyler75
      @TheSchuyler75 3 роки тому +2

      99% of people thing he’s talking about his pecker 😂 thanks for the education 🙏🤣

  • @annmills3163
    @annmills3163 3 роки тому +27

    This version is missing the first part where he’s talking to the audience, it’s pretty funny. And yes this was played on the radio I was 9 yrs old when it came, most kids just thought it was a fun song Adults either loved it or hated it

    • @danlefou
      @danlefou 3 роки тому +3

      The longer version was recorded at the Oxford Union, and that was the one shown by the BBC. Even ruder and funnier, with Chuckles putting down hecklers in the audience.

  • @jerrydelacruz5119
    @jerrydelacruz5119 3 роки тому +14

    It was on AM radio, all the time.

  • @bertramfien1095
    @bertramfien1095 3 роки тому +10

    He is actually one of the fathers of Rockland roll

  • @scotttrainer9704
    @scotttrainer9704 3 роки тому +5

    This is a shortened version. They've cut out his instructions to the audience in the beginning, and some interactions of him joking with people.
    The godfather of rock and one of the greatest of all time.

  • @DawnSuttonfabfour
    @DawnSuttonfabfour 3 роки тому +12

    That's a UK audience Harri!! It was HUGE here lol.

  • @zoereeves6071
    @zoereeves6071 2 місяці тому +2

    i was a teenager when this song came out! Everytime it came on in the car as we were cruising around the whole car would sing along with it! We sang it on a school trip also but I think it was banned from our talent show! I still get a giggle when I hear this song. I also owned the 45.

  • @danlefou
    @danlefou 3 роки тому +17

    Yes, it was on radio. In fact the whole gig was on national TV, to the horror of moral campaigner (read sanctimonious busybody) Mary Whitehouse. Needless to say, this helped to make it a humongous hit. :-)

    • @LeChaunce
      @LeChaunce 3 роки тому +1

      Ha ha, charade she was!

    • @davebarker9144
      @davebarker9144 10 місяців тому

      This concert was not on TV the one shown was recorded a few days later at the BBC with a much smaller and less enthusiastic audience.
      Ironically the recording was made in Coventry only 8 miles from where Mary Whitehouse lived

  • @hazelanglin5907
    @hazelanglin5907 4 місяці тому +2

    I was 12 years old when this song was released

  • @georgeringley2667
    @georgeringley2667 3 роки тому +1

    Chuck Berry is Old School rock. He, along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Chubby Checker and of course ELVIS. The mid and late 50's helped to usher in Rock and Roll. This song he did late in his career and he showed everyone that he still has it.

  • @StoyTheOld
    @StoyTheOld 3 роки тому +7

    Chuck Berry headlined the first rock festival I attended . He got the entire audience singing along . Fun show .

  • @dalem8332
    @dalem8332 3 роки тому +12

    INCREDIBLE rock pioneer the one and only Chuck Berry!! He wrote so many rock and roll classics and yet this was his only #1 song! Fun great song though! 😎🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @keymack2477
    @keymack2477 3 роки тому +6

    This song was definitely on the radio, and we enjoyed listening to it a lot! There is only one place to go from here, Harri, and that is (drum roll please), "Big Balls" from AC/DC!! Go for it, Harri - you won't regret it, believe me!!!!!!

  • @stephenqualtrough7322
    @stephenqualtrough7322 3 роки тому +8

    Yes. This was number 1 and this video was on Top of the Pops but just to distract us a big Tony Hart drawing of a big bell was inserted at intervals. Mary Whitehouse went puce .

  • @jkronen1000
    @jkronen1000 3 роки тому +11

    When this came out it played over and over on the radio - just a fun song. - I was in Montreal, Quebec. All my friends loved the song - the double meaning 🤣🤣🤣

    • @tonyrobertson1038
      @tonyrobertson1038 2 роки тому +1

      I saw him in Montreal at Place des Nations around 1972 and he performed My Ding-a-Ling and it was so much fun. Everyone was singing along.

  • @kevinwalsh9788
    @kevinwalsh9788 Рік тому +2

    My mother bought this album knowing fully what it was about. The hole neighborhood always had a good laugh when she blasted the song.

  • @debjorgo
    @debjorgo 3 роки тому +6

    This song was always a hit in his concerts. The version heard here is what was released as the single.

  • @marniethedyslexic6445
    @marniethedyslexic6445 3 роки тому +11

    Great Reaction Harri. You have to admit it’s a great song. No one can do it better than Chuck Berry. His humor through the whole thing is the best part.😀👍❤️✌️🌼

  • @coololdluke3905
    @coololdluke3905 3 роки тому +4

    Yes America played this on the radio..but it didn't come out until early 70s. They wouldn't have allowed it 10 years earlier though. Haha great memories

  • @lancepickett5653
    @lancepickett5653 3 роки тому +2

    It got massive air-play in Milwaukee and if the Billboard charts which track requests and air play are any indication it got a lot of airplay.

  • @craigreid7178
    @craigreid7178 2 роки тому +2

    This got major air play on the radio when it came out. My cousin played bass for him for 15 years.

  • @nativetexan9776
    @nativetexan9776 3 роки тому +2

    It was innocent times. The time this was out, I was in 7th grade.

  • @robertphelps1574
    @robertphelps1574 3 роки тому +2

    It was originally written and released by Dave Bartholomew in 1952

  • @craigreid7178
    @craigreid7178 2 роки тому +1

    I actually saw him do this live in Jan of '72. My cousin was playing bass and I didn't know it. It was a great performance including this song. Sha Na Na opened for him.

  • @richgoebel882
    @richgoebel882 2 роки тому +1

    The full track has the intro where he explains how the audience should sing along. That's why there is a jump at the beginning, and the audience sounds so good.

  • @cathyortiz1280
    @cathyortiz1280 3 роки тому +2

    I saw Chuck Berry at a benefit concert in the early 70's. This song was popular & he sang extra verses not on the record that are even funnier. The audience sang the chorus, esp loud at the end. Just hilarious! He was the highlight of the concert!!

  • @steverogers2635
    @steverogers2635 3 роки тому

    If anyone was the father of rock and roll, it was Chuck Berry. Thanks for the great reaction vid Harri. Peace.

  • @cazgerald9471
    @cazgerald9471 3 роки тому

    Chuck Berry is on the short list for greatest lyricists.

  • @GivnoFyux444
    @GivnoFyux444 3 роки тому +1

    You can only go up from here!

  • @Ronnysan50
    @Ronnysan50 2 роки тому +1

    Not written by Chuck. I too thought for years he wrote it but it was written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952. He was the horn player and arranger for Fats Domino. He also wrote and co-wrote many of Fats' hits. Berry changed the lyrics in his version, and kept the naughtiness and double meanings.Ironic that with so many iconic songs he penned, his only #1 wasn't his.

  • @michaelyork4554
    @michaelyork4554 3 роки тому +3

    Kind of like Jim Stafford, in Wildwood Weed, "We just smiled and waved, sittin on that sack of seeds"

    • @janster3000
      @janster3000 3 роки тому

      Wildwood Weed

    • @michaelyork4554
      @michaelyork4554 3 роки тому +1

      @@janster3000 You know I wrote that first and thought I was wrong because the song says wildwood flower, and usually, I would just check and see, but I changed flower. I guess I better change it so there won't be any confusion.

    • @janster3000
      @janster3000 3 роки тому

      I always liked the silly songs of the old days. This was one of my favorites.

  • @Cath1027
    @Cath1027 2 роки тому

    It was played on radio here in Ireland 🇮🇪. I was a child had no idea what the words referenced. We used to sing it playing on the swings. Such a witty funny song

  • @trishafaulk2067
    @trishafaulk2067 3 роки тому

    Hey, everyone needs a laugh, especially these days. There were lots of songs we were not supposed to listen to when my dad and a lot of my extended family were around, but when it was just mom and us we listened to almost everything. My mom wanted us to develop our own sense of music.

  • @davebarker9144
    @davebarker9144 10 місяців тому

    I was actually at the concert when this was recorded. If you hear side 2 of the Chuck Berry London Sessions album he starts by saying "I finally got a chance to sing one". Because until the previous song ( which nobody in the audience knew) after the 1st line of each song everybody sang and drowned him out so we were enthusiastic to join in anything.
    It is a shame though that this was his only No 1 hit.
    Incidentally the ballroom where this was recorded is now a public library.

  • @karenj3611
    @karenj3611 3 роки тому +2

    I remember hearing this on the radio at the time, it was quite naughty. We really giggled.

  • @vincentdarrah
    @vincentdarrah 2 роки тому +1

    This came out in 1973 and I remember hearing it on the radio. a few days later, a bunch of us were singing it at school. The school called and it was the one time my dad answered. They told him "Your son has been going around school singing that he wants people to play with his ding a ling" My dad says, "well he is only 6 years old and has no idea what its about so don't worry about it"

  • @SnuSlavin
    @SnuSlavin 3 роки тому

    Chuck was a good man and great individual......

  • @ivansavoie3190
    @ivansavoie3190 2 роки тому

    A cute little toy his grandmother bought

  • @davidpitt9528
    @davidpitt9528 Рік тому

    First time I heard this song I was driving in my car and had to pull over because I was laughing so hard

  • @deannabayless8025
    @deannabayless8025 3 роки тому

    In the 1970s and ‘80s, it was regularly played on the syndicated Dr. Demento show, a weekly US radio show of all novelty songs.

  • @agnetamalmqvist9075
    @agnetamalmqvist9075 3 роки тому +1

    Haha!

  • @trudywolfe2795
    @trudywolfe2795 3 роки тому +1

    You missed the first part where he was teaching the audience to sing this song.

  • @stanleynykaza9042
    @stanleynykaza9042 3 роки тому +2

    Please do some CCR Credence Clear Water Revival, Down on the Corner and Born on the Bayou and Looking Out my Back Door

  • @bemused9522
    @bemused9522 3 роки тому

    LOL... This was on a childhood record I had like "Funky favorites"....& My older brother would play it for my sister and me and we would do the chorus....we had no clue, just knew it was funny and really did think he was talking about bells...... LOL.....I look back now and it makes me laugh harder thinking about how much we sang it!!!!! 😂 LOL

  • @kathyedleman633
    @kathyedleman633 3 роки тому

    It was a big hit in America as well.

  • @DawnSuttonfabfour
    @DawnSuttonfabfour 3 роки тому

    I cannot WAIT til you hear this...lol.

  • @jeannejorgensen1230
    @jeannejorgensen1230 3 роки тому +1

    We all thought this song was sooo funny back then and yes it was on the radio!! In the car, we would all sing along at the top of our lungs out the car windows!! Lol. Things were different back then.

  • @bluesrock1
    @bluesrock1 3 роки тому +1

    Chuck Berry is the Godfather of Rock n Roll. This is NOT the song he should be remembered by. He didn't even write it. I think he put this out as a novelty song, something to get the crowd involved in at live shows. In my opinion it's a throw away even though it was his only #1 Billboard recording.

  • @AndieO
    @AndieO 2 роки тому

    Lmao... you are not reading it wrong. So much fun. Honestly, my grandmother (who was born in 1920) used to sing this to me and my cousins. It was a little bit naughty, but we never thought of it like that. To us, it was a silly song that Nan would sing a long with us while she was making bread or whatnot. Guess we were a generation whose parents figured if they made a fuss over everything, nothing would get done, and we could feel like we were naughty without being explicit.

  • @lindaclark3457
    @lindaclark3457 2 роки тому

    The longer version is even better!!

  • @peggyradeck9140
    @peggyradeck9140 Рік тому

    Every time it was sung when I was at a bar it’s alwYs done the same way. The girls sing “My” and “Won’t you play with my”. The men sing “Ding-a-ling”

  • @justlookin11
    @justlookin11 2 роки тому +1

    Actually Dave Bartholomew released the original back in the early 50's. Chuck took it, upgraded it and rocked the world with it 20 years later. A true pioneer of Rock & Roll.

  • @nativetexan9776
    @nativetexan9776 3 роки тому +1

    That concert in England 1972

  • @JimHancock
    @JimHancock 3 роки тому +1

    Chuck Berry was out there though, he had a reputation for some outrageous stuff..... do the research... LOL... rock and rollers will be rock and rollers...

  • @johnnyhawkins43
    @johnnyhawkins43 2 роки тому

    I remember this from back i guess early or mid 70s but here in USA it was on the radio and I think it was number one !

  • @TheSchuyler75
    @TheSchuyler75 3 роки тому +1

    wasn’t banned here in America. I remember this and as kids we loved singing this 🤣

    • @TheSchuyler75
      @TheSchuyler75 3 роки тому

      and we thought he was singing about his pecker not the toy called ding a ling

  • @SnuSlavin
    @SnuSlavin 3 роки тому

    Yes on the radio!

  • @andreaschmall5560
    @andreaschmall5560 3 роки тому +1

    Much better Chuck Berry songs to react to!!

  • @mikerphoneassasinhls8303
    @mikerphoneassasinhls8303 2 роки тому

    Heck the man sang about how he rode around in his Automobile while his girlfriend gave him road head 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @cindyerick2968
    @cindyerick2968 Рік тому

    My mother wouldn’t let us sing,”Bitch is Back” by Elton John but she loved this song.

  • @gioconda43
    @gioconda43 3 роки тому +1

    That was funny!😄

  • @tammybiddle7115
    @tammybiddle7115 3 роки тому

    This was very popular. My dad even had the 45 record. Lol. And we’re from the US.

  • @Cynthia...
    @Cynthia... Рік тому

    This song is hilarious.

  • @debbiechang5781
    @debbiechang5781 3 роки тому +2

    I heard this song when I was young and never knew what to make of it, although I did (and still do) find it to be hilarious. I guess it’s just a funny song. Now that I think about it, I don’t think it was played on the radio here in the states. I’m not sure where I heard it. 😂

    • @cathyortiz1280
      @cathyortiz1280 3 роки тому +1

      I remember hearing it on the radio.

    • @ajogg
      @ajogg 3 роки тому

      It was #1, his only #1 in the US. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8006918/chuck-berry-my-ding-a-ling-rewinding-the-charts-1972

  • @charlesbunch8383
    @charlesbunch8383 3 роки тому +1

    This is the song that beat out Elvis' Burning Love for the #1 spot on the American charts in 1972. Burning Love only got to #2.

  • @palm244
    @palm244 2 роки тому

    HARRI, HARRI, HARRI, If you have never heard this song... You must've been playin' with your own ding-a-ling
    Gary, Gary, Gary

  • @jamesjohnston9225
    @jamesjohnston9225 3 роки тому

    Chuck was a great showman and entertainer. This was later in his career. I cracked up laughing as I sang along every time they played it on the radio. He influenced so many musicians that you may as well quit counting. He had a huge stage prescence with some awesome moves while playing and singing. Johnny B. Goode was one of his most popular releases

  • @Doggeslife
    @Doggeslife 3 роки тому

    In the full version you hear him instructing everyone in what to sing. This version comes in later.

  • @sirbobloblaws
    @sirbobloblaws 2 роки тому

    I thought Charles Barkley invented 'turrible' for terrible. But no, it was Chuck Berry!

  • @TheSchuyler75
    @TheSchuyler75 3 роки тому

    🤣🤣🤣 he sure did and it’s awesome 👏

    • @TheSchuyler75
      @TheSchuyler75 3 роки тому

      I’m dying laughing so thanks because you had me in my bag earlier

  • @dennish3032
    @dennish3032 3 роки тому

    There is another song , I think from the 30's . Song title is Shaving Cream. Thats all you need to find it on youtube. Same sort different allusion. Think I also caught it on an early black and white talkie movie where they still wore the heavy makeup from the silent movies.

  • @JuandeFucaU
    @JuandeFucaU 3 роки тому +1

    Chuck Berry was actually inspired by a white boy named Marty McFly..... I saw it in a movie once.

    • @IllumeEltanin
      @IllumeEltanin 3 роки тому

      Courtesy of his cousin calling him on the phone while Marty played, nu?
      😆

  • @dennisdeshurley2979
    @dennisdeshurley2979 11 місяців тому

    Listen to the song he singing about the bells his grandma bought him for christmas.

  • @tomroome4118
    @tomroome4118 3 роки тому

    Harri, if you listen to the album you will hear the intro, where he directs the boys and girls their part to sing.

  • @jamiekendrick5057
    @jamiekendrick5057 2 роки тому

    And this is a
    SHORTENED version. Long one is even funnier!

  • @nathansnider6525
    @nathansnider6525 3 роки тому +1

    Epic reaction bro!!!

  • @suzanneprock7286
    @suzanneprock7286 3 роки тому

    He sure knew how to get a crowd going, signs of a great entertainer! Just a fun song.

  • @stevenmonte7397
    @stevenmonte7397 3 роки тому

    makes me tear up... my grandmother would get a kick out of us listening to this 45. such a song of my childhood!

  • @stephenqualtrough7322
    @stephenqualtrough7322 3 роки тому

    Is this why there is a bell on the home page So's we can play with our ding-dong
    Could be ?

  • @larrymcauley3152
    @larrymcauley3152 3 роки тому +1

    Listen to Pistol Packing Papa but Jimmy Roger's. It was done in the 30's I think.

  • @chrisalldis3375
    @chrisalldis3375 3 роки тому

    One of the greatest guitarists of all time, certainly in the top 10, but he did say that this one paid all the bills

  • @michaeleasterwood6558
    @michaeleasterwood6558 7 місяців тому

    If you listen to the words, its about a toy that was given to him called a ding a ling. sheesh

  • @JohnHazelwood58
    @JohnHazelwood58 3 роки тому

    There is even a longer version avaible. Not only the intro is missing in this one, but also some verses ... Check out the long version!

  • @adiarainfoster
    @adiarainfoster 3 роки тому

    There's another video where you can hear him instructing them in the song and the interactions make the song so much funnier :D
    Strange that they seem to have overlayed the audio from one performance onto the performance that I'm most familiar with. if you watch his lips, the sound mostly doesn't match up when he's talking lol

  • @richardmartin9565
    @richardmartin9565 3 роки тому

    It was a big song here two.

  • @robertsaul234
    @robertsaul234 3 роки тому +1

    Frank Zappa's Dinah Moe humm and Ted Nugent's Wang Dang Sweet Poontang received a lot of play too.

  • @marymartel6342
    @marymartel6342 3 роки тому

    You're back! ❣

  • @pd4104lang
    @pd4104lang 3 роки тому

    Early Rock N' Roll was based on Blues and R&B, which was peppered with sexual double entendre! Segregationists of the time labeled it race music! Young whites of the time loved it, which sent their parent's through the roof! 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @NathanVeenstra
    @NathanVeenstra 3 роки тому

    Well did you know that there’s a company called Dong Energy? 😅

  • @sherrifigueroa1272
    @sherrifigueroa1272 6 місяців тому

    👍🤣👏

  • @StevesFunhouse
    @StevesFunhouse 3 роки тому

    YEs, this was HUGE because it was sort of dirty but could get past the censors, and that made it even better.

  • @petermachare5711
    @petermachare5711 3 роки тому

    OMG Harri, I've collected off color R&B all my life and this song is as mild as they come. Even the Rolling Stones have Short and Curlies and another song sometimes called Schoolboy Blues. You can't believe it? Believe it. Remember the old Muddy Waters song with the line "a one eyed cat peeping in the seafood store"? Well, there you go!

  • @ajogg
    @ajogg 3 роки тому +1

    He didn't write the song Harri, story on the song. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8006918/chuck-berry-my-ding-a-ling-rewinding-the-charts-1972

  • @tomseidel2992
    @tomseidel2992 3 роки тому

    Big Balls by AC DC is another one that got a lot of radio play because the double meaning gave it enough cover.

  • @danielglenn915
    @danielglenn915 3 роки тому

    Mainstay of a lot of family reunions and occasional fais do-dos in south Louisiana in my childhood. You should check out My Toot-toot by Rockin Sydney as well. Takes me back forty years in an instant.

  • @howardhales6325
    @howardhales6325 Рік тому

    Censorship wasn't as prevalent back then. The generation who sang about freedom had more of it than they knew.

  • @avantprog6902
    @avantprog6902 3 роки тому

    This was very bold and subversive. He got away with it. Chuck is looking like a total hippie.

  • @andrewclayton4181
    @andrewclayton4181 3 роки тому

    Got to no. 1 in UK. 1972 (?) Quite late in his career, just a novelty hit. The brits like saucy humour. There was one frumpy campaigner who wanted it banned, but that just polished it up more. Great song. Some Mourne that one of his more sensible songs didn't hit the 1 spot.

  • @stevedotwood
    @stevedotwood 3 роки тому

    He had a great sense of humour, and he was the great influencer. (I bet that whoever wanted to have it banned must have been seen as a pervert because it's a cute little song (if you want it to be, lol))